Lauren Mills, Financial Mail
5 July 2009, 11:34am
move would set the ball rolling for Shell to firm up details of its potential involvement in developing the deep-water fields.
Jeroen van der Veer, who stepped down as Shell’s chief executive last Wednesday, said: ‘As far as we know, the situation regarding licensing will be resolved in the near future.’
He met Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last weekend. As revealed by Financial Mail, the Anglo-Dutch oil company was asked for its help in developing the vast Sakhalin-3 and Sakhalin-4 oil and gas fields.
The surprising about-turn, after years of Russian resource nationalism, could mark the start of a new era of cooperation between Russia and foreign oil majors.
Putin clearly recognises that Russia needs foreign investment to help it realise its energy wealth. Referring to Sakhalin-3 and Sakhalin-4, Putin told Van der Veer: ‘Your skills and experience will certainly be required in those areas.’
Shell is likely to learn details about the terms of its potential involvement once Gazprom has completed exploratory work.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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